Senior Manager, Treasury FX

Senior Manager Treasury - London  

The Senior Manager will manage the UK based Treasury Trading team and provide senior treasury and business support to global teams with a focus on the EMEA region. 

The role will ensure Convera’s FX risks are managed in accordance to organization policies, and continually identify and mitigate risks to improve the function and business. The incumbent will help manage Convera’s FX counterparty network alongside the Senior Director. 

The Senior Manager will build strong relationships and provide expert support to internal sales teams and other departments such as credit, risk and compliance, with actions such as pricing and execution of complex foreign exchange deals including FX option combinations, designing FX risk mitigation strategies internally and for clients, and providing other value enhancing solutions. 

The individual will provide, across the organization’s channels and products, strategic and tactical input into product design, process and productivity improvements, business development initiatives, and other areas where a higher level of technical and functional risk management and FX execution knowledge is required. 

Critical to the role will be team and project management skills, coordinating resources between time-zones and departments to deliver value-added solutions for the business. They will train, coach and mentor the UK based team to ensure a culture of development and growth within the team. 

The individual must have a strong understanding of foreign exchange markets and will need to quickly gain a full understanding of the products and processes used and offered by Convera subsidiaries and execute day-to-day activities of the Trading desk. 

Primary responsibilities will include: 

• Understanding of end-to-end business and Treasury workflows with a focus on continual improvement
• Training, coaching and management of a strong team of financial professionals
• Growing and maintaining FX bank relationships to provide necessary liquidity and best execution for the business
• Reporting and analysis of Treasury risk management program metrics and KPIs, including portfolio analysis, PL, MTM and various other analyses
• Providing materials and presentations for various forums including Senior Treasury Management and Executive team
• Maintaining and improving systems architecture to ensure best in class currency position management and reporting
• Developing strong relationships with various internal and external stakeholders with a focus on external banks and the internal go-to-market organization, to ensure best-in-class cross-stakeholder processes and customer satisfaction
• Ensure efficient and globally consistent risk management processes across the global FX Treasury team
• Ability to execute Treasury Risk management processes by covering exposures and providing quotes and deal execution to client-facing stakeholders
• Supporting business and new product development by providing effective and efficient risk management solutions
• Understanding current, and monitoring, upcoming derivative regulatory and reporting requirements
• Continuously monitoring economic indicators and their impacts on the global foreign exchange market
• Effectively monitoring and managing the division’s foreign exchange risks according to policies and procedures
• Recommending enhancements to risk management processes to meet risk objectives and support rapid business growth

Qualifications and requirements: 

• Demonstrate detailed understanding of and hands-on experience trading/dealing foreign exchange instruments, including forwards and options.

• 10+ years of experience within the foreign exchange markets strongly preferred.  

• Bachelor's degree in finance or related subject preferred  

• Strong written and verbal communication skills• Strong leadership, problem solving, relationship management building skills
• Formulate suggestions to address complicated financial risk scenarios and situations
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills
• Demonstrated critical thinking and evaluation skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines• Understand economic indicators/events, evaluate impact on currencies relevant to Convera’s interests, communicate and train others.